Pool Sharks.

This week has been the most entertaining. Homewood is hosting a group from downtown Vancouver called Carnegie. http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/carnegiecentre/ . Their Volunteers have been here only once before, so they are fairly new to Homewood. As a gift to the Volunteers, Carnegie will send them to Homewood for a full week. Most of them over 40 years old, they mostly play pool, go canoeing by themselves, sleep, and smoke... a lot. Needless to say I think i'm addicted to second hand smoke. Us as Homewood staff only need to do dishes and cleaning for this week but we are called by the good Lord to do more. Hanging out with the "campers", listening to outrageous stories from downtown Vancouver, and occasionally losing a game of pool, are our unspoken duties. At the Carnegie Centre there is a very, very well used pool table that most of them practice on so really none of us staff really stand a chance although Joel, Mark, and I have been practicing quite a bit lately. We still get skunked. Carnegie is here till tomorrow and then gone, the Homewood staff will get a much needed weekend off.

This week, in between dishes and coffee breaks I have been working on a project. If I had taken "before" pictures I would post them but sadly... I dropped the ball. I've been organizing and doing renos to our old "printshop" which is located in the back of our office, in hopes that it will one day become my new home. No promises have been made yet but, Irwin... if you're reading this... it would make my work feel more worthwhile if I one day got to look back, while i'm sitting in my new home and reflected on the work I had done to it. Lets be honest though, i'm really not that picky.


-Josh